18-04-2022, 10:23 AM
By JEFF MARTIN
April 17, 2022
The short documentary video opens with a high school student explaining how human waste flows up from the ground and floods an area where he and his friends eat lunch.
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The video, which has garnered more than 27,000 views so far since it was posted on YouTube this month, has prompted outrage among some parents in the suburban area just east of Atlanta who want repairs made. It was produced after the DeKalb County School Board in February removed Druid Hills from a list of schools in need of priority renovations.
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In Virginia, journalism students documented conditions at Maury High School and showed the video on the YouTube channel they use for school news broadcasts. Administrators ordered them to remove the video from the YouTube channel in 2019.
The same year in Louisiana, a video by residents exposed problems at Block High School in Jonesville, about 90 miles (about 145 kilometers) northwest of Baton Rouge. In Duvall County, Florida, the county produced a similar video in 2019 to persuade voters to approve a sales tax measure that would pay for repairs.
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students are waiting to see concrete steps being taken to improve their school.
“So far I feel like they’re just talking,” Berry said. “I don’t really see a change so far. No one has really done anything.”
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